BIC "White Out" for White Walls on vinyl tires..

[Deuces]

Just wondering if anyone here has tried it yet....

I did a little searching and I noticed that Bic also has white out pens in their arsenal besides the bottles...

[Deuces]

I was thinking it can also be used as a "base" for a red jel pen for doing redlines... ? And I do love redline tires... ??

[Ace-Garageguy]

I tried the old-style brush-in-cap Wite-Out a long time ago, and my experience was that it didn't flow enough to suit me, leaving raggedy brush marks.  

Since then, I've been using acrylic artist's white, or acrylic gesso, with the tire chucked up in a slow-speed drill...and a good brush, almost a pinstriping brush, that will carry enough paint to get a complete coat in one revolution without stopping.

For even better results that rival factory pad-printed tires, I use a light colored spray interior dye, and masks cut from frisket film with a compass knife.

And in my own experience, I've found that a white gel-pen, allowed to dry thoroughly, makes an acceptable base for blue-line stripes (sorry...I don't recall the manufacturer of the gel-pen that works best; oil-paint markers usually never dry on vinyl tires).

EDIT: I'd be really interested to know if the correction pens work well for narrow whitewalls and tire lettering.  

Edited October 6, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[Dave Van]

Tamiya White Primer spray........dries perfect and stable....

[Deuces]

Cool, thanks!....

[LDO]

Years ago, I also used artist's acrylic paint for the white shoe polish markings on funny car tires. That application was okay to have streaks and be imperfect. I mixed in a tiny bit of yellow and brown to get the look of sun faded shoe polish. 

[Deuces]

Cool!!..... Please keep them ideas coming!!!

Thanks guys!.... ☺️

[Oldcarfan27]

I was just thinking, what about vinyl upholstery dye in spray cans? It's designed to bond to vinyl permanently. I'm sure it comes in white, but you may have to get it at an auto paint supplier. I don't think Pep Boys or other auto parts places have it in white.

[Ace-Garageguy]

48 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

I was just thinking, what about vinyl upholstery dye in spray cans? It's designed to bond to vinyl permanently. I'm sure it comes in white, but you may have to get it at an auto paint supplier. I don't think Pep Boys or other auto parts places have it in white.

Yup. That's what I said up above...

On 10/6/2018 at 11:40 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

 

...For even better results that rival factory pad-printed tires, I use a light colored spray interior dye, and masks cut from frisket film with a compass knife.

 

 

[geewhiz]

I want to try these great ideas.  My favorite up until now is white liquid shoe polish sprayed through my airbrush.  I used it on my 49 Merc that's in the museum.  Sorry, I don't have any good pics of the Merc.

Edited October 8, 2018 by geewhiz

[Fat Brian]

On my Eldorado the tires I used had a pretty defined ridge around them so I masked the front of the tires with bare metal foil and trimmed around the ridge. Then I shot the areas I wanted white with Mr. Super Clear flat, it's the only thing in a spray can I've found that will dry on vinyl. Once that was dry I shot them with Krylon flat white then a final coat of clear flat. I think they turned out pretty good even though this won't work for every set of tires.

[Deathgoblin]

Citadel Miniatures/Games Workshop makes a white paint that is VERY opaque and works really well for whitewalls (Ceramite white).  I like their paints a lot for detailing.